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November 26, 2008
McCain Campaign Played the Race Card on Itself
The liberal media wasn't alone in refusing to publicize the many factors that should have disqualified the Moonbat Messiah from being elected president. The inept McCain campaign did so too — out of terror of being perceived as playing the race card against a candidate who was elected primarily because of his race. Advertising ace Fred Davis III had his hands tied:
"My favorite ad of the campaign was as simple as it could be," Davis said. "And it started out something like, 'Long before the world knew of John McCain or Barack Obama, one of them spent five years in a hellhole because he refused early release to honor his fellow prisoners, while the other one wouldn't walk out of a church after 20 years of the guy spewing hatred towards America.' And the last line was, 'Character matters, especially when no one is listening.'" The ad never ran, however, because McCain ruled the topic of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the preacher of Obama's Chicago church, out of bounds shortly after he locked up the Republican nomination.
Good advertising men are almost always mischiefmakers at heart, the sort who don't mind a little confrontation and who revel in a bit of controversy. And so Davis is wistful at the missed opportunities of the McCain campaign. "I made a list once, which no one will ever see, of all the reasons that my hands were tied on this campaign," he says. "And I've never had a list this long." One of his biggest struggles, Davis says, was to come up with negative spots against a historic, groundbreaking candidate without stepping on taboos. "One of the big hands that I felt was tied behind my back was [that] so many things — like [Obama's record on] crime — you would logically do were perceived as 'Oh, we can't do that. That was playing the race card,'" he says, adding that the campaign created a whole series of crime attacks against Obama that were never aired. "Reverend Wright? 'Oh, can't do that; they'll say we are playing the race card.' [William] Ayers? For the longest time, 'Oh, can't do that. We're playing the race card.'"
Davis says that concern about race played a major role in the entire aesthetic of McCain's ads. The photographs of Obama that the ads used, for instance, which often showed Obama elongated and smiling, were carefully selected, he recalls. "We chose them with only one thing in mind, and that is to not make them bad pictures because bad pictures would be seen as racist," Davis says. "How many shots in their ads did they use a John McCain [photo] looking decent and smiling?" He says the campaign also agonized over the music in the ads, paying special care not to play drum-heavy tracks that could be seen as an African tribal reference. "We were held to a totally different standard," he says.
As an idiot could have predicted, McCain was accused of racism anyway:
Nevertheless, the McCain campaign was unable to escape the charge that it was playing the race card. An Associated Press analysis called the campaign's invocations of the once violent 1960s radical Ayers "racially tinged" because they evoked the word terrorist. McCain was also accused of playing on race for running an ad that highlighted Obama's relationship with Franklin Raines, a former executive at Fannie Mae who is black. Says Davis: "I never saw anybody play the race card but the Obama campaign."
Unless the insanity of political correctness abates, we may have seen our last white president for awhile. The advantage of being black is so overwhelming, it could even get a skeevy community activist with no serious credentials who has spent his life being mentored by communists, terrorists, and black supremacists to be installed in the White House.
On a tip from Dennis S.
Posted by Van Helsing at November 26, 2008 8:31 AM
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"The advantage of being black is so overwhelming, it could even get a skeevy community activist with no serious credentials who has spent his life being mentored by communists, terrorists, and black supremacists to be installed in the White House."
Aaawww c'mon...they wouldn't let THAT happen...
Come to think of it...the protective, rule-of-law entity known as "they" isn't around any more; "they" are now a bunch of megalomaniacal Leftists.
May our Lord have mercy on this nation.
Posted by: Toa at November 26, 2008 8:46 AM
How pathetic the McCain Campaign was!!! Now that Obama is elected, does this mean that there will be an end to white guilt?
Posted by: Chrissy at November 26, 2008 3:09 PM
Now that Obama is elected, does this mean that there will be an end to white guilt?
Not at all. But there will be a continuation and likely acceleration of liberal bias against whites.
Posted by: Fiberal at November 26, 2008 3:43 PM
To suggest there was any cause for "white guilt" is RACIST!
Sorry, Chrissy.
Posted by: KHarn at November 26, 2008 3:47 PM
KHarn: Acknowledging that BO is black, is that racist? ;D
Posted by: Chrissy at November 26, 2008 5:17 PM
McCain terrified? The man was a POW for YEARS. He's not afraid of anything, and if he is, doesn't that sound kinda "liberal"? Doesn't that contradict the "Straight Talk Express" he was using as one of his campaign slogans?
In any event, THIS is the real reason why the Republican ticket didn't win this time around.
I'm a liberal, and have no white guilt.
Quit being drama queens, people. THESE are the "liberals" you should be pursuing.
Posted by: virgomonkey at November 26, 2008 5:31 PM
virgomonkey: McCain is a RINO. Do you know what that means. Republican In Name Only. So to answer your question, yes McCain is a Liberal, a Liberal Repub. And I really don't give a craps worth what Canada and the Bilmeys say.
I saw your pic. Did anyone ever tell you that you like that guy from Journey?
Posted by: Chrissy at November 26, 2008 6:43 PM
